Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released March 07, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
63.15 min. (Feature Film)
63.15 min. (Feature Film)
The St. Louis Robins arrive in town for the World Series against New York, and the Robins' star pitcher Tommy "Mr. Dynamite" Thornton (Lloyd Nolan) takes in the sites by visiting a street carnival in Manhattan's Little Baghdad. A beautiful girl (Irene Hervey) working in a pitching concession catches Tommy's eye, and he follows her into a theater tent featuring a ventriloquist act. A man she meets is stabbed to death during the performance, and Thornton follows her when she escapes. Did she commit the murder, or can Dynamite believe her story that the man was her partner, killed by enemy spies? Tommy is determined to find out, and finds himself also implicated in the murder, uncovering a plot by underground Axis agents to destroy American factories.
Shemp appears briefly as 'Abdullah,' a phony Arab working an equally phony fortune-telling concession at the carnival.
Avg. Rating: 
[7.00/10]
[7.00/10]
Lloyd Nolan
Tommy 'Mr. Dynamite' Thornton
Irene Hervey
Vicki Martin
J. Carrol Naish
Professor
Ann Gillis
Joey / Abigail
Robert Armstrong
Paul
Robert Homans
Police Captain
Sam Harris
Granville
Shemp Howard
Abdullah
Frank Gaby
Valla
Elisabeth Risdon
Achilles
Monte Brewer
Skinnay
Evelyn Selbie
Madame Smetana
Isabel Randolph
Abdullah's customer
James C. Morton
Policeman
Kernan Cripps
Detective
William Ruhl
Detective
Tom Braunger
Boy
Joel Friedkin
Father
Virginia Engels
Pretty girl
Suzanne Ridgeway
Pretty girl
Kay Leslie
Pretty girl
Babe London
Fat girl in pitching cage
Rudolph Anders
Butler
Cliff Nazarro
Man fumbling with keys
Bobby Barber
Little man
Ken Christy
Guide
Ferris Taylor
Tourist
Will Armstrong
Tenant
George McKay
Cashier
Sarah Schwartz
Matron
Frank Yaconelli
Armenian man
John Rawlins
Director
Marshall Grant
Associate Producer
Stanley Rubin
Story and Screenplay
John Boyle
Director of Photography
Ted Kent
Film Editor
Jack Otterson
Art Director
Ralph M. DeLacy
Assoc. Art Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor
Jess Moulin
Sound Technician
Hans J. Salter
Musical Director
Charles S. Gould
2nd Unit Director
Vera West
Gowns
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